Tag: Pasta

Recipe Pasta with mint pesto and bread crumbs – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients FOR THE PESTO

200 g basil
120 g mint
50 g parsley
25 g crumbled stale bread
30 g grated Parmigiano Reggiano DOP
2 cloves of minced garlic
extra virgin olive oil
salt
ice

Ingredients FOR THE PASTA

600 g fusilli or other short pasta
Grated Parmigiano Reggiano DOP
coarse salt

Duration: 25 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 8 people

To prepare pasta with mint pesto and bread crumbs, blend the basil, parsley, mint, stale bread, garlic and 5 ice cubes in a blender or in a powerful food processor.
Add 2 tablespoons of oil, Parmesan, 1 tablespoon of salt and mix.
Bring to the boil in a pot of salted water over medium heat.
Strain fusilli al dente, add the pesto and sprinkle with grated parmesan.
Decorated to taste with fresh herbs.

The longest pasta sheet in the world, the record in Forlimpopoli – Italian Cuisine

The record to beat was 125 meters: it has been largely surpassed, with a super sheet of 177 meters and 72 centimeters

There puff pastry rolled with the longest rolling pin in the world: is the record achieved by the city of Forlimpopoli, in the province of Forlì – Cesena, in Emilia Romagna, during the Artusian party, which last week celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of the gastronome and writer Pellegrino Artusi.

The record to beat was 125 meters (achieved last year at Fico Eataly World in Bologna. The previous one, on the occasion of Expo 2015 in Milan) and has been largely exceeded, with a super sheet that measured 177 meters and 72 centimeters. The sfogline and sfoglini that gave their availability to try the international record were more than one hundred, from 96 year old lady, the oldest of all, to the girl of 15, the youngest: they kneaded eggs and flour (each had 6 eggs to roll out two meters of pastry) together with the volunteers who gave their availability, but also to the mayor Milena Garavini, the councilors, the first citizens of the past legislatures.

The members of the Mariette Association and their friends sfogline e sfoglini, in reality, would have managed to go well beyond almost 178 meters in length, but, in via Costa, where the world record was broken, there were not enough tables where to roll out all the fresh pasta that had been prepared.

In fact, in half an hour, the sheets were all pulled, then they were joined together to cover all the tables that had been set up to beat the record. But – it soon turned out – there was not enough place to put all the pasta. Volunteers and citizens tried to bring more tables, but even then there was not enough space for all the pastry that had been prepared. Thus began the measurement, which confirmed that not only the sfoglini di Forlimpopoli have broke the record previous, but they also achieved a truly remarkable record.

Federer meets the tennis players of the roofs (and together they eat pasta and tiramisu) – Italian Cuisine

Vittoria and Carola who, during the lockdown, made themselves known all over the world for the video in which they dribbled on the roofs of Finale Ligure, met the Swiss champion thanks to Barilla

But does Federer like tiramisu? In fact, as a child he didn't love him. Once an adult, however, he learned to appreciate it. «Since Roger travels a lot, he tells us he has it tasted in every restaurant in which he has been . Vittoria, 13, and Carola, 11, the young tennis players who, during the lockdown, made themselves known all over the world for the video (which obtained more than 9 million views) in which they dribbled on the roofs of Finale Ligure.

On 10 July the two girls, friends and training partners at the Tc Finale Ligure, have been invited to return to their terraces on the pretext of an interview on their viral video. And, instead, they found themselves in front of Roger Federer, who arrived by private jet at the Albenga Riviera Airport. The champion took them out for lunch to taste the pasta cooked by the chef of Academia Barilla Marcello Zaccaria told them about his childhood ("He showed us a video on the mobile phone in which he dribbles with his sister: he must have been 4-5 years old") and he was recommended to experience tennis with joy and fun. The champion also prepared gifts for the two young athletes: the racket with which he challenged the No. 1 in the world Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semifinal, an autographed t-shirt, cuffs, sweat bands, balls. The video of the meeting, The Rooftop Match – with Barilla's intuition, of which Federer is an ambassador, and who conceived the initiative – has become a commercial, which will be published in the coming days, but of which there is already some anticipation.

There is also a "behind the scenes".

«For me, the surprise started when I actually decided to go to Finale Ligure in person., Federer says, «He had also considered organizing the meeting in another place, then Barilla suggested that it would have been fantastic if I could have gone to the roofs where the girls had actually played. That day, their reaction to my arrival could not have been nicer, and more surprising. Personally, for me that was it a special moment in my career as a tennis player, in which I had the opportunity to surprise young fans like Carola and Vittoria ".